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Janis Ian will take the stage at The Sheldon Concert Hall when Grand Center and KETC/Channel 9 bring the legendary Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter to St. Louis for a single performance. Ian’s June 19 concert will be filmed “live,” beginning at 8 p.m., and aired on Channel 9 on June 27 at 8 p.m. as part of the ongoing Live From Grand Center series.
This special concert will feature Ian at her best, as she performs a retrospective of her work and shares her most current songs — all while providing anecdotes from her life.
Ian’s amazing career spans four decades. In 1965, at the age of fourteen, Ian recorded her first album. She gained notice in 1967 as a folk-singing wunderkind when Leonard Bernstein featured her in his CBS television special Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution, resulting in her then controversial song, Society's Child, becoming a national hit that was later inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Ian’s 1970s masterpiece, Between the Lines, was nominated for five Grammy awards (winning two) and featured the iconic lament of teen insecurity, At Seventeen. In Japan her album, Aftertones, was number one for six months and a disco collaboration with Giorgio Moroder went platinum throughout Europe, Africa and Australia. She received her seventh Grammy nomination for a jazz duet with Mel Torme.
With a musical range from folk to pop to jazz, Ian’s live performances have been called “…overwhelming to the spirit and soul…,” and “drenched with such passion the audience feels they’ve been swept up in a hurricane.”
A legendary presence in the music world, Ian’s remarkable oeuvre includes ethereal ballads and politically charged observations on such issues as loneliness, racism, incest, homophobia and divorce. Her songwriting today continues to illuminate through a social justice lens.
In addition to her June 19 performance, Ian will be releasing Society’s Child: My Autobiography in July. A new double CD (her twentififth) will be released that month, featuring songs from her 40-year career.
“In this one-of-a-kind event, the Sheldon audience will see a live concert, plus the behind-the-scenes production and direction required to create a television broadcast. St. Louis television viewers will see a stage performance come to life … we’re excited to bring this level of entertainment back to St. Louis for a third year,” said Susan Wedemeyer, director of communications, Grand Center.
This is the third “live” collaboration between Grand Center and KETC, including last spring’s Live From Grand Center concert at the Sheldon Concert Hall featuring well-known local musical talents and “A Grand Night in St. Louis,” which aired on New Year’s Eve and included highlights from First Night-St. Louis.
“We are creating and producing Live From Grand Center in the style of Live From Lincoln Center,” said John Killacky, Grand Center’s art director. “Grand Center continues to enlarge its arts and entertainment reach with excellent musical performances for home viewers in St. Louis. Our hope is to take Live From Grand Center concerts to a national audience,” he added.
Ian’s show is made possible, in part, thanks to a contribution from Anheuser-Busch Companies.
Tickets to Janis Ian: Live From Grand Center at the Sheldon Concert Hall begin at $20 and will go on sale May 1 through MetroTix.
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